Senior Process Engineer/Project Manager
Progressive Design
- Midlothian, VA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for performing engineering duties on assigned projects including equipment specifications, process piping, material handling and conveying, HVAC, and other mechanically related engineering and design.
- Manage the engineering and design process from inception to completion. This includes: leading projects, work planning, directing and overseeing designers and engineers assigned to your projects, design reviews (both internal and with client), and checking deliverables (calculations, drawings, technical reports)
- Chemical Engineering undergraduate degree from an ABET accredited school
- Direct customer interface and coordination
- Develop detailed scopes of work
- Compile detailed project estimates (project, engineering and construction)
- Manage scope, schedule, and budget
- Manage the engineering and design process from inception to completion. This includes: leading projects, work planning, directing and overseeing designers, design reviews (both internal and with client), and checking deliverables (calculations, drawings, technical reports)
- Exercise innovative cost efficiency approaches in the project design to reduce construction costs and increase productivity
- Prepare PFDs and P&IDs
- Size and specify typical process equipment such as pumps, tanks, heat exchangers, chillers, condensers, mixers, distillation and absorption columns, etc.
- Perform calculations to size and specify process, service and utility piping systems
- Perform calculations to size and specify safety relief devices
- Review equipment submittals for accuracy and validate against specifications
- Develop and/or verify mass and energy balances
- Maintain familiarity with various industrial codes such as ASME and API
- Visit customer sites for field work
- Chemical Engineering undergraduate degree from ABET accredited school
- 10+ years of heavy industrial experience in a design or process engineering role.
- Virginia Professional Engineer preferred but not required
- Must have heavy industrial experience, experience in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, or bio-processing industries is a plus
- Project management experience
- Experience working in a multidiscipline engineering consulting firm
- Process safety experience (PHAs, HAZOPs, Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment, Inherently Safer Design, Documentation to support process safety, etc.)
- Current working knowledge of safety relief device code requirements, calculations, sizing and system design procedures
- Current working knowledge of chemical engineering principles with an emphasis on fluid mechanics, mass and heat transfer, and thermodynamics
- Working knowledge of Aspen or HYSIS
- Must be technically sound, and be willing to mentor junior engineers
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- Must be results oriented
- Must be a team player
- Must possess uncompromised commitment to quality
- Must be US citizen, have a Valid U.S. Driver's License, Clear Background, Pass a Drug test